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Good to see Jay's car getting some public attention, It sure is a great looking car. Loved it since late seventies when I got my copy of mentioned CC. What happend to it? Got repainted in some kind of blueish color, I believe. But then it dissapeared.

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I first saw it in CC when as an early teen in the 70's, starting to get into ods and Customs and started collecting vintage car magazines. Always dug the car and though it seemed to be chopped a bit too much, that roof somehow "made it all work". The flow of the roof C pillar into the Olds side trim was sweet.
IIRC, it hailed from the Desert area of Socal (Windfields territory nowadays).
Always wondered if it survived. Would be a great car to restore/show up at a run with!!!

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RYAN...thank's for sharing, NAA i've never seen it. but i truely love that old custom! but i must say there was an even finner one at the car show in fort worth this year. and he's a H.A.M.B. member...POP.

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Very cool.. Jay is a very good friend of mine.. I took him to Winfield and Watsons show this year.. It was the first time Jay and Larry had seen eachother in almost 50 years. He had a ball. Even started talking about another build.

Just for bragging rights here... I have Jay's copies (original photos) from the CarCraft shoot.

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Wow nice magazine. That smell of old paper. Nice and musty!!!! Thanks for posting that. I have some old hot rod ones i will have to pull out. If i can only remember where i put them. Knuck from indiana.

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Just for bragging rights here... I have Jay's copies (original photos) from the CarCraft shoot.

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I bet that if you can brag about the fact that you own the originals... you also can share them with us here.... Now that would be really cool!!!

Here are two photo's of the Shoebox that I Kololrized for the Rodder's Journal.

The first one is in the two tone purple color and the second one - a section from the Parking Lot Custom Car Show photo - in the better known color combination.
I have always liked this car a lot... although the top looked a bit strange

And two great color photos from Pat Ganahl's excellent TRJ article on Custom Cars...

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I bet that if you can brag about the fact that you own the originals... you also can share them with us here.... Now that would be really cool!!!

Here are two photo's of the Shoebox that I Kololrized for the Rodder's Journal.

The first one is in the two tone purple color and the second one - a section from the Parking Lot Custom Car Show photo - in the better known color combination.
I have always liked this car a lot... although the top looked a bit strange

And two great color photos from Pat Ganahl's excellent TRJ article on Custom Cars...

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How did you color those photos like that? They look great. I especially like the second one.

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I scanned a few.. Don't know how they will look here.. Rikster, I sent Jay that copy of the Rodders Journal with his car colorized.. He loved it. Rikster, here is an offer to ya.. Give me a snail mail address and I will send you my originals of all the photos Jay gave me so you can make copies of them.. Just make sure they make their way home when your done.. Anyway.. I am kind of a computard.. Lets see how these came out..

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Those photos are amazing... and they sure gave me some more insight in the different versions of the car.

I thought the yellow and orange version was the final version... but now I think that the last version is a Blue and Silver painted Shoebox with modified front wheel openings.

For long I had this enlarged section of a photo taken at the Peterson Motorama in 1954? at the Pan Pacific Auditorium.

It looked like Jay's car.. but I never had seen it in this color combination. And the taillights looked different than on Jay's car in yellow and orange.

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But now with these two photos I know its Jay's car in its final? version in white/silver and dark blue? or is it green like in the faded photos?. and new Mercury taillights.
The new front wheel cutouts looks fantastic on the car.

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Fantastic! Seeing pics of it in green was a big surprise. That was a big kick with inspiration! Many thanks for supplieing the photos to Rik to get them shown for all us die-hard custom fanatics in the world.

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While I dig hot rods more than customs, I really like the pic "jay11" that Tumbleweed posted above. Can you imagine showing up somewhere in '56 in that bad-looking custom?! Very cool. Thanks for posting these.

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So.......
Does it still survive, or has it gone to the great Kustom show in the sky?
Was it know as the "Desert Beauty, or was that a different shoebox? If so, I remember seeing ads that it was For Sale back in the Mid 80's.

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So.......
Does it still survive, or has it gone to the great Kustom show in the sky?
Was it know as the "Desert Beauty, or was that a different shoebox? If so, I remember seeing ads that it was For Sale back in the Mid 80's.

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I have no information about the cars current whereabout... Or that it might have been crushed or anything like it. Perhaps Jay knows more about. I hope to get in contact with him soon.

As for the Desert Beauty... that is a different car. But they sometimes do get mixed up. Similar colors (although reversed), side trim and heavy chop.
Desert Beauty was built by George Gowland who had a shop in the desert...

Another cover car George Gowland's Desert Beauty, but this time for Rod & Custom.